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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (176311)

8/11/2020 11:45:14 AM

From: koan

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The thing about you right wingers is you seem incapable of learning.

What is primitive, is not recognizing that modern day science knows what it takes to make a healthy and wise society.

Trump was elected by our having too many uneducated folks that could not tell that he was nothing but a con man who would screw us. As he has.

You brought gambling up and I was explaining the difference between gambling and a game of skill and you still don't get it.

Saying it was a winning streak is like saying Garry Kasparov had a winning streak.

I think you don't read my posts because it is too much reality for you. That is why most right wingers don't read my posts. They break the illusory bubble you folks live in and it is too threatening.

And the fact you do not understand that power is money e.g. big companies and the rich like the Koch Brothers and Exxon spending millions of dollars contributing (buying) politicians and hiring lobbyists to get all sorts of tax breaks and regulations.

The poor don't have lobbyists to look out for them.

And science knows that education makes people smarter. It is called the "Flynn Effect". Look it up. James Flynn found that people today are about 60 IQ points higher than people a 100 years ago because of public education.

The brain is like the body. The more you exercise it the smarter it gets. And the smarter it gets the more money it earns, in general, for a population and the healthier and wiser the society you will have e.g. the Nordic countries.

That is why it is so important to have free education starting at pre school and all the way through a PHD. It is a leveling filed. The rich and academics make sure their kids get educated, but the poor can't afford it.

Message #176311 from Brumar89 at 8/11/2020 10:51:17 AM

I usually avoid reading your posts but that one had the subject in the first few words.

I'm not impressed by a gambler bragging about a winning streak years ago.

The whole idea that income inequality is a result of millionaires hogging all the money is primitive and stupid. Individual's choices determine drive most income inequality imo.

free public education and welfare systems that help a person when they are down. We've had those for all my life and no one is seriously against that sort of thing.